Zedist Elephant | Original pride “Who will make the honey

“Who will make the honey when I’m gone

I wanted to show the similarities between living organic systems and crystalline inorganic shapes

Always under the watchful eye of the mother

The sun is shining on her lower left glute

it was the first time I had used a diminishing perspective spiraling into the distance

Zedist Elephant | Original pride “Who will make the honeyThis was the first true Zedist piece I created and deserves special mention. I got the idea of combining textured surfaces with other realistic images by looking at a dry lake bed in the Southern California desert. All of the mud was curling up and separated into organized shapes and patterns, giving the surface a broken, three dimensional texture. I made a series of paintings using pieces of cut up sheet metal (shown here) that were bent into curled